Translation of: Le Moyen Age 987-1460

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313) and index

PART I : The inheritance. The empire -- The Frankish people -- The principalities -- Disturbances -- -- PART II : Lordship. The village -- The castle -- The church -- King and Lord -- -- PART III : Origins of state and nation. The great age of progress -- Louis VII -- Philip Augustus -- The south -- The thirteenth century -- The fourteenth century -- The maid of Orleans

Duby examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc in the mid-fifteenth. He takes the evolution of power and the emergence of the French state as his central themes, and guides the reader through complex - and, in many respects, still unfamiliar, yet fascinating terrain. He describes the growth of the castle and the village, the building blocks of the new Western European civilization of the second millennium AD

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